Cheese tastings, cave tours, markets and cheese routes in Burgundy.
A guide to cheese experiences in Burgundy.
About an hour in a Dijon wine shop tasting three Burgundy wines each paired with a Burgundy cheese, including an Aligoté with Délice de Bourgogne and mustard. Saturdays at noon from 10 October to 26 December 2026.
Annual village fair in Époisses with about 60 exhibitors selling wine, bread, cheeses and local produce, with a petting farm and music, and a festive evening the next Saturday.
A 22 km easy ride along the Canal de Bourgogne with four cheese tastings at farms, including the Soumaintrain producers Lorne and Leclère, ending at Flogny-la-Chapelle.
Dijon's covered market, where cheese stalls such as Au Gas Normand sell Burgundy and other French cheeses on market days.
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Yes. The appellation requires the cheeses to be rubbed with a salted solution containing Marc de Bourgogne during ripening.
At least four weeks, according to the defence syndicate.
Within the delimited zone around the Auxois and Châtillonnais: western Côte-d'Or, three cantons of Yonne and two of Haute-Marne.
Its zone straddles two departments: the Aube, in Champagne, and the Yonne, in Burgundy. It is a cheese of the border country between the two.
A minimum of 14 days is noted; the guide to French cheese puts the peak tasting at four to five weeks.
The syndicate suggests the local wines: a white Mâconnais Chardonnay or a red Mâcon.
Raw goat's milk, from Alpine or Poitevin goats.
Ivory, with a delicate bluish down that can appear during ageing.